dipped the sun behind the horizon, a horizon of rich, golden, salmon pink, merging into the deep blue of turquoise, and finally into the cold gray of evening through which the stars shone with strange and almost material lustre. On my return to the hotel I had for my vis-à-vis at the dinner table Dr. René Gaurez, who had come down from Cordova to attend a medical convention. He was a distinguished-looking man of forty or thereabouts, with courteous manners, spoke various languages, and was an encyclopædia of information on Central America. He subscribed for the Lancet, and was well informed on English therapeutics, praised the king for his deep and sympathetic interest in the study now being made of cancer, and Sir Thomas Lipton for his munificent contribution to the hospital established by His Majesty for the treatment of this disease. Our conversation drifted into a discussion on the diseases peculiar to cold climates. I told him of the efforts we were making to fight consumption-the "White Plague," as it was popularly known among us. "White Plague," he repeated, a very appropriate name for a most insidious and treacherous disease. Among us we have found lemon juice to be a most efficient remedy for consumption in its primary and secondary stages, and an excellent remedy in all pulmonary diseases."

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To my question touching its preparation the doctor replied:

"To extract all the acid from lemons they ought

to be boiled. Put them in cold water and boil slowly till you are satisfied the lemons are softening. Then spoon them out of the water and with a squeezer extract the juice. Now to the juice give enough sugar-not too much-to make it palatable. Then add twice as much water as there is juice of lemon."

"Is this boiling done every day?" I asked the doctor.

"This preparation," he replied, "may be made each day or enough may be prepared to last a week, but then it must be corked and kept in a cool place." "And what's the dose, sir?"

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Ah, that," said he, "is left to the discretion of each one, but four or five glassfuls in the twentyfour hours is the usual quantity." Dr. Gaurez believed that between the lungs and kidneys there was a deep and sympathetic interest.

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